anxiously waiting for the support of lock screen wallpaper =)

First off I have to say what a wonderful bit of software ! I love it. In using it I have noticed a few things though..
1.when viewing pictures while in the facebook app, the background image seems to override the facebook picture in the top status bar( wher the signal and carrier logo is)
2.if you have a folder in you wallpaper dir you can not select the wallpaer folder
3.You can not select the photo library? Only camera roll? (maybe I missed something)

Thank you for the bug report for folder in wallpaper. I’ll fix that one.

The photo roll is a database not a folder of pictures. It’s going to take a lot more to get it to display.

Can you screenshot the facebook problem for me?

I just want a black background, no dock background and no icon labels for a nice simple, clean look without the performance issues of winterboard, will your app be able to do this?
I assume I can just choose an all black pic for the wallpaper, but how about the icons.
I’m holding out for the general release.
Thanks!

Yea, while this isn’t really what it’s for, it can do this with a black background image. I am adding colored backgrounds soon as well.

This is not a replacement for Winterboard. It is a separate enhancement to help fill the gap where I believe Winterboard leaves off…… sorry couldnt help myself… oh my icons my icons….. great freagn app boss does exactly what it sez it shud.

i figured out that since the resolution of the picture from the camera roll is bigger than 320×480 it doesnt scale it when viewing in bosspaper

ok while takin the pics i also discovered how to activate this bug thing, btw it has been there before the .95 update i believe. (idk if u can instert pics here its my first time postin here =))

first u see the background
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2267/img0038a.png

then go to facebook and start viewin a pic
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8109/img0042y.png

then tap the screen
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2377/img0041e.png

and this is how it looks on landscape mode
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8734/img0040jkm.png

tap the screen again and the statusbar comes back to life. idk if this app is causin it but thats what i think he meant. cheers and if u can fix it do ett. btw dont forget a new facebook app upgrade is coming, idk it this might change the things.

Upon upgrading to .95 beta . I crash at start up I figured out QuickSmS 3.0 conflicts with the update . Otherwise Great App BB.

This sounds like a Winterboard javascript widget. It would be impossible to make those things work together while keeping good performance and it is the goal of this project not to work with javascript due to performance problems with it.

You have nonstandard fonts.

Hello,

Thanks for developing and supporting such a nice app. I was wondering if it is at all possible to make the icons transparent or at least bring opacity up 20% or so, that way the background is easier to view. Especially for us who use 5 row and 5 column. May be impossible without changing the icons i am not quite sure, just thought i might suggest it. Thanks again.

Thx for the reply. Then I choose Bosspaper! If at all relevant; the liveclock does work properly with Bosspaper (widget?)… The white speck however does not seem widget related (is clearly visible with longer transition times) any ideas? Thx again and keep up the great work!

Actually you are not because that is a fake account. I barely use twitter adn when I do, it’s at http://twitter.com/_BigBoss_

Great I love it !!!
Works perfect…I like the update !
…and more to come I’m sure
Thanks so much keep on !

Hey, first of all, thanks for the great app. It is exactly what I was looking for and I couldn’t think of an author I’d rather have designing something to optimize when my rotating wallpapers are running =)

That said, is there anything in the pipeline to support overlays from Winterboard? Any theme I have that has an overlay that sits on top of the background has been overwritten. I have worked around this by setting the overlay on top of each of my backgrounds, but it is quite a bit of work considering how many wallpapers I’m using.

Also, I just noticed that it is covering up my weather app at the bottom of the screen too. I’m guessing that is probably using resources when my screen is locked too. Guess I might as well take the code for that out if I can’t even see it.

ah nevermind, i moved the slider when i was on seconds to “60″ and then tapped and made it Minutes, thought since 60 minutes is also valid i dont have to move the slider again..
when moving the slider after changing the interval unit it worked fine.

Sorry for bothering you :)

Hmm, what if, instead of requesting the overlay from Winterboard, you were to prompt for it in the settings and the user could select the overlay from their theme folder. Then you could just blend the overlay with each wallpaper as it fades in and out.

Like I said, I got it working for mine already by pasting the overlay on to each background in photoshop, but I’m trying to brainstorm ways that this might be easier to implement for other users.

Seems to be a bug in 0.99.

I have set bosspaper to change every 60 secs yet i once the wallpapaer has changed i can enter and app and exit it and the wallpaper will change again. I dont have the change on exit set.

What exactly is an overlay? Give me an example.

If you have on close app selected it is expected to change as soon as you close an app or unlock.

That is correct behavior and not a bug. The timer runs until it expires. The paper will not change while you’re on the home screen. It changes when you unlock or close your app. Otherwise, how do you have a long timer work? Say timer is 5 minutes. The iPhone locks after 2 minutes. If the timer is killed, the iPhone unlocks and you are still on same paper for another 5 minutes. The paper will never change unless you are not locked on springboard for 5 minutes.

The solution is to let the timer run one last time while locked or app loaded. When the timer expires do nothing as you don’t want to incur performance loss. When app closes, if the timer expired, change the image at that moment.

I had to change it in 0.99 for timers > 60 seconds for the reasons I stated above. Prior to v0.99, if you say set a 1 hour timer, unless you sat on springboard for exactly 1 hour without ever running an app or locking the screen, the image *never* changed. Each time you run an app, the timer was killed. Then the new 1 hour timer would be set when you closed your app. The result is your image would never be changed.

The solution to this was to let the timer expire but just do nothing. There’s no performance hit there. The timer isnt “running” it goes into an idle state and only runs when it expires. The OS already has many timers always firing. So there’s no performance hit or battery drain caused by it.

When the timer finally expires, it sets a flag so that its time to change the picture. This keeps the timer you set running so if you say want a new picture every hour, you will get that. If the iphone is locked for 59 minutes of that, it doesnt matter. When you unlock you get your new picture if the hour is up. This feels more in spirit of what the timers are for.

If you dont like this and you are using 60 seconds for your timer, change it to 59 seconds. That will be below the “long timer threshold” and you will get the behavior from before.

I may add an option in the settings app to enable / disable this, but I fear most users won’t really understand it then email me when their image never changes after an hour is up. I also suspect we wouldn’t have this discussion if I never had it the old way in 0.95. So the way it is now seems to be least likely to flood my email box :)

Possible? Yes. Desirable? No. This requires an active process to now be constantly polling for a system time, checking if that time has elapsed, and deciding if something should be done. The timer, on the other hand, registers with the system and then goes to sleep never to run again until it expires. It’s pretty much “free” for both battery, cpu, and memory.

Someone else sent me that same theme. It won’t be possible to make this work better together. BossPaper really has no knowledge of specific winterboard themes and they are both “competing” for the same space. You guys will have to choose which you want to use in this case :(

how can i select the pictures from the “photos” app?

ummmm i think i need a source? could anyone tell me what it is, cus i think it mayb because i have icy instead of cydia?

Cheers BigBoss good job on this latest update, works perfectly for me, just what I needed.
I have 3gs and it run smooth. I did load some boss add on too. It rocks! Thanks

why did u make it 3.x!! i hav 2.2.1 and now i cant even use it and i cant update to 3.x anyone know wat i can do